Reel Politik Podcast

in the RP debut of new producer Sarah Sahim (@hikikonormie on Twitter), Sarah produces a Jack-Yair-Geraint conversation on seminal early-00s cop drama The Shield, a show that lived and died on the razor's edge of hot-button issues like police brutality, the blue wall of silence, political ladder-climbing, repressed homosexuality and, most importantly, baldness. Embracing our melt roots, we present...

Jack is going to the hospital to get his ailment checked out...here's Geraint with friends of the show @KlezmerRouge and @johntheduncan on Sinan Kose's Twitch stream the other day. https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader

we check in on character actor and Mel Gibson collaborator Eddie Marsan, who continues to put the "melt" in "meltdown" with a seriously defamatory Twitter thread about leading underworld figures "The Corbyn Brothers"

GapeCast writers/stars Jack Frayne-Reid and Farages Fucked Face joined Sinan Kose on his popular Twitch stream last week to talk about the show and its whole sick, twisted extended universe. Not long into the protracted stream, Geraint joins the crew. Meanwhile, Sinan plays a game called Tropico 6, which is not named after the headquarters of the FBI. GapeCast is discussed, but so is much more bes...

Subscribe over @ patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour+ episode. continuing what appears to be developing into a loose series on the work of Sacha Baron Cohen, Jack and Yair give his 2018 TV series Who Is America? a largely positive appraisal, without mentioning co-writer Lee Kernt even once PLUS: Jack's Neil Young bootleg project, and recent penchant for generic cop shows

from the patreon.com/reelpolitik archives depraved individual Farages Fucked Face on a lifetime of trolling, writing GapeCast, the distilled evil of Jerry Lee Lewis, and the sad & tragic life of Robin Thicke

This is the audio of a recent stream on our friend Sinan Kose's (@TheSinanKose on Twitter) Twitch channel - https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader. Jack & Sinan Kose review the recent book by Chris Clarke, the son of former New Labour minister Charles Clarke (the one with the ears), 'The Dark Knight and the Puppet Master'. Bitterly wounded by a lifetime of hard left trolls pointing out that his dad v...

Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full episode. Our next Patreon exclusive will - like our new free episode - feature Nate Bethea of Trashfuture fame. Once again, happy new year to all - we're back in fucken business! Edited/produced by Yair with extra production by Jack on the Neil Young section, this conversation takes us all the way back to the end of November, when Yair had been...

After a short break around Christmas, RP are back, and we mean business. This mammoth two-hour episode - probably the longest in ages - finds us all guns blazing, and this time dealing with some completely insubstantial material of absolutely no consequence; the dreadful American TV drama series Designated Survivor. The show is an ineptly pulpy work of US imperialist propaganda that Jack flatly de...

Faced with spending a lonely Christmas all alone at the Ilford South MP's Mansion, the luminous Cownadu, Mike Gapes vows to have the best Christmas of all time, as that'll show Corbyn and his Chinese communist friends, who created an entire pandemic specifically to inconvenience the most hard-done-by individual in the world, Michael Gapes. Cheerful reminiscences are shared about a Gapes child's Ch...

drawing inspiration from unproblematic fave Phil Spector, we present A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO YOU FROM REEL POLITIK - your one-stop shop for all your festive discourse needs, in which Christmas and the wider festive season are never alluded to even once. instead - more Trump bullshit! whether political art is "more relevant than ever"! Jack reviews Tenet, as well as JK Rowling's melt detective TV show!...

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full thing. Jack and Yair talk about some genre stuff they've watched recently - the Haunting of Bly Manor, The Invisible Man - Jack gushes with praise for top Scientologist Elisabeth Moss and covers Led Zeppelin very badly.

In a GAPECAST inspired by the 1971 Ozsploitation classic Wake In Fright, non-Ilford man John Grant is marooned in the one-horse town of Ilford South after he falls asleep on a train; a place where the only respite from the drudgery of the data mines comes from sinking pint after pint of strong milk, and the only excitement from the occasional cow hunt. Whilst this also sounds idyllic enough, there...

On the messy transition between two fascist AmeriKKKan regimes. Produced by Yair.

Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour of RP! Full title: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Ilford South Compiled by Yair from our latest movie roundup, it's Jack and Yair on Borat's Subsequent Moviefilm, how it compares to the even more convolutedly titled 2006 original, and how it reflects the liberal worldview of its creators. We initially did...

on Corbyn's readmission to the Labour Party and subsequent suspension from the Parliamentary Labour Party by moral criminal and state fascist Keith Starmer. where's the birth certificate, "Keir"?

Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour-long episode. The final instalment of Jack & Yair's latest movie roundup: on arch-creep Bryan Singer's "Nazi next door" thriller Apt Pupil, Jordan Peele's socially conscious Twilight Zone reboot, Kathryn Bigelow's terrific early/mid-period films Point Break and Blue Steel and her sad decline into CIA propaganda, the enduring comic value of...

Jack talks to Jacobin's Daniel Finn (@DanFinn95) about Starmer's war on the left and the fallout of the EHRC report; the political rationale for his suspension of Jeremy Corbyn, why JC deserves our solidarity, and the left's insufficient response.

Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full thing. An exhausted Jack, fresh from interviewing comrade Dan Finn for a future edition of the show, checked in with our man in Montana, Official RP Joint American/Jewish correspondent Yair Rice, to see what's happening in the US presidential race. Throughout, Jimothy Baker provides us with updates on the fraught political situation live from I...

In possibly the first RP ever to go out without a single edit (ok the "hard left" intro was added afterwards), Jack and Yair discuss the US election, including important factors like the songs Donald Trump plays at his rallies and the independent campaign of Kanye West. Jimothy Baker, Ilford investigative journalist extraordinaire, also calls in to give us some dispatches from that key battlegroun...

Thursday saw the release of the EHRC report into antisemitism in the Labour Party, and Keir Starmer's subsequent outrageous politically motivated suspension of Jeremy Corbyn, the state fascist and moral criminal's latest act of war on the left. Jack sat down with Yair to pick his brain on what it like to be a Jewish Corbyn supporter at the moment, what the whole conversation about Labour antisemit...

From the RP vaults, here is all the material we recorded on Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire's Left Out that didn't make it into our two official episodes on the book. The bulk of this bonus material comes from the sessions for our previous Patreon exclusive, the Farages Fucked Face-featuring episode 'Cry For St James' (from before FFF joined the call). In this conversation, we go through some of...

The second and final (except for the forthcoming BONUS PATREON EXCLUSIVE) part of our deep dive into the Times' Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire's book on the fall of the Corbyn project, 'Left Out', in which Geraint (@wariotifo) and Jack talk Remain, spooks, turncoats, centrist apartheid apologia, competence and lack thereof, the possibility of Blur/Oasis-style head-to-head Gapes/Milne memoir pub...

Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full episode. Yair & Jack on The Shining (1980), The Shining (1997), Doctor Sleep (2019), Castle Rock (2018-present) and the whole Stephen King extended universe, plus similar reboot/prequel thing Ratched (2020-present), its source material One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Next (1975) and the assorted hackwork of Ryan Murphy. Produced by Yair.

The first part of the official RP review of Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund's Left Out, the two Times journalists' recent book on the decline and fall of Corbynism.